Fix the Sagging Deck and Tool Review is sponsored by The Home Depot. I have been compensated for my time and provided with product. All ideas and opinions are my own. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. Check out this view of the deck floor while coming up the stairs. It sort of reminds me of Galloping … [Read more...]
Changing a Car Tire the Quick Way
This Changing a Car Tire Ridgid Impact Wrench tool review is sponsored by The Home Depot. I have been compensated for my time and provided with product. All ideas and opinions are my own. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. Flat tires rarely happen in convenient locations, thanks Murphy! They always … [Read more...]
Water Problem – Garage Floor Grinding
This Garage Floor Grinding post is sponsored by The Home Depot. I have been compensated for my time and provided with product. All ideas and opinions are my own. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. Slowly I have been chipping away at taking my garage from a total disaster to a 'hopefully' useful garage … [Read more...]
Install A Customizable Shower Head
I recently went to a DIY conference called Haven. It is a big gathering of DIY enthusiasts (mostly bloggers) that gather together and learn tips and tricks for DIY projects. Besides bloggers and DIY enthusiasts there are vendors, who show off and teach how to use their products. Sometimes the vendors give away products to try. WaterPik was at this conference showing off … [Read more...]
Wire an outlet plug
For the last 7 weeks, I've been helping my Dad at his Turkey Farm. They are building 2 new turkey sheds and got into a time crunch, desperate times call for desperate measures :-) so I went to help him install all of the systems in the shed. The systems includes A LOT of electrical wiring, feed lines, water lines and sprinklers, natural gas lines and heaters, fans, motors etc … [Read more...]
How to make a simple electrical circuit with stuff from around the house.
A couple of weeks ago, I was asked if I could help out some local Cub Scouts in the Webelos program to earn their Webelos Engineer requirement. I love to do little engineering projects so I knew this would be so fun. These are the requirements for earning the Webelos Engineer requirement: … [Read more...]
How to replace a light fixture (outdoor) tutorial
Replacing an old outdated light fixture can really give new ‘light’ to a space. My garage light fixtures never really did a great job at putting off much useful light, and then they began to rust. Luckily I saw these cute LED fixtures at Costco for $39.99 (I also saw them at Home Depot for $59.99 with a $20 mail in rebate). Replacing light fixture is fairly … [Read more...]